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U.N. officials blast U.S. border policy as 'unconscionable' and cruel

Human rights and humanitarian officials said U.S. officials must stop separating migrant children from their parents.

A tour of Rio Grande River border patrol operations in Texas.
A tour of Rio Grande River border patrol operations in Texas. (AN/Aimee Fujikawa)

GENEVA (AN) — The U.N.'s top human rights official called on the United States to immediately end a new policy that has separated nearly 2,000 migrant children from their parents in the past six weeks.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, a Jordanian prince who heads the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said nothing could justify a policy that punishes children because their parents wanted to traverse the Mexico-United States border.

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